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Summary: Fascinating!
Review: I love unique books, and this one is marvelous! Although it is classified as juvenile fiction, I recommend it to young and old, male or female - it is such an imaginative story that gets you to think about life as we know it. I couldn't help thinking of Prozac while listening to this book, and how this and other drugs may be used to mask "feelings" and thus mask life, and make everything kind of vanilla. It's one of those books you want to walk around recommending to everyone you talk to, just so you have more people to talk to about it!
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Summary: The Giver
Review: I loved "The Giver." I thought that it was an excellent book. The author, Lois Lowry did a fantastic job of writing a novel about a twelve year old. This book was not boring to me and I couldn't put it down. It had so many actions and it was unlike any other story that I have read before. In my opinion, "The Giver" is an excellent book.
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Summary: Best Book ever
Review: I loved the book.It's great how the author describes the memorys extremly well.Its my absoulut favorite book. I recommend to grades 6 and up.She put alot of details in her words. Its good also that jonas has alot of expresion
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Summary: Cool Book
Review: I loved The Giver! I recommended it to all my friends! If you like to read, try this book.
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Summary: Cool!!
Review: I loved the giver!! It was one of the best books that I have read and I have read alot of books, Believe me!! So please if you haven't read it yet... Just Do It!!!!!
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Summary: paradise gone bad
Review: I loved The Giver, and have it completely memorized because I've read it so many times. It brings up the continuing theme of "what if there's a problem in paradise?" I think anyone, not just sci-fi or fantasy readers, would like this book. The main character, Jonas, has a lot of depth, and by the end I really felt like I knew him. This is a definite buy!
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Summary: The Giver was great because it viewed life from many angles!
Review: I loved The Giver-it was an amazing read. To really better understand the book and its ideas you need to read it a few times. But even after just reading it once it leaves a big impression and makes you think about your life and how different it could be. Another great part of the book is that you could get a great idea of it and its points at any age. I know this is a book that I'll keep and read periodicly throughout my entire life. It totally deserved its Newberry Honor and I would recommend that any parent buy it for their child-and also read it themselves!
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Summary: The Battle for Perfection is Lost on Both Sides
Review: I loved the novel, The Giver. It exposed the advanced world of utopia and its problems. Although a utopian world has its benefits such as no poverty, hunger, and racism, it also restricts people from the simple benefits of life, such as being able to see colour, being able to make decisions on your own, and unexpected weather changes. Although a utopian life may be desirable to many, living life w/out these benefits isn't living life at all. Having a predictable and controlled environment is not at all satisfactory. Lois Lowry has shown this to us through the eyes of a 12-year old child, Jonas. Another reason I like this book was because I had never read a story like it before. It is very different from the normal books that I have read because it expands on society. Each time I read it, it makes me think of how corrupt our society and world is. I want to change our government, not to the point where it's communist or utopian, but enough that we won't have to worry about money, hunger, or devastation. We would all have jobs and work to better ourselves. We would be the land of opportunity that we never were. The book was going along smoothly until the very end. I believe the end was very abrupt and incomplete. It would have my final star if the last chapter had some sort of happy, if any, conclusion.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: I loved this book! Even though I have never been one to read Science Fiction or Fantasy, I can't wait to share this book with students! The 'open-ended' conclusion will make wonderful discussion questions. We will all probably write our own endings. Lois Lowry writes about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a 'perfect' society. There are no decisions to be made, no hatred, no war, no memories and...no love. When Jonas turns 12 he becomes the "Receiver" of all memories and feelings. What an interesting story unfurls from there! I would highly recommend this book for any mature young adult readers (and for us "oldies", too).
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Summary: The best book in the WORLD!
Review: I loved this book! It is about a boy who lives in a "community" where there is no poverty, no pain, no hunger. Every year there is a ceremony for children who turn different ages. This year is the last ceremony for Jonas (the "boy")and a very important one. It is the year when Jonas gets a job picked for him. He gets picked the reciever of memories. He starts to see colors and learns about hate and war. I'm not going to give out the end so read it for yourself. Note: gifted children handle this book better than others.
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